Garment-supporter.



No. 842,541. EATBNTED JAN. 29, 1907. M. L. GASTON.

GARMENT SUPPORTBR: APPLICATION FILED JULY 16. 1906.

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MARY L. GASTON, or NEW roan, N. v.

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Specification or Letters Patent,

ii-atented Jan. 29, 1907.

Application am m 16,1908. seen No. 828,332.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, MARY L. GASTON, a

citizen of the United States, residing in New York, in the county of N 'ew York and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Garment-Supporters, of which the following is a'specification.

This invention relates to. garment-supporters, and more particularly to the clasps thereof, the object of theinvention being to provide improved means for preventing the slipping, straining, tearing, and wearing of the garment or hose at or adjacent to the point where the clasp is attached;

A further object of the invention is the provision of detachable means, inexpensive to manufacture, whereby it may be made and sold at comparatively small cost independently of the garment-supporter and of such a simple construction t at it may be readily attached to the arment-supporter by the wearer thereof and as readily detached should occasion require,as, for instance, in the breakage or, wearing out of the armentsupporter for attachment to anot er supporter of the same or a different kind and which when attached will be in position to prevent the cutting, tearing, straining, slipping, and wearing of the stocking or garment at and adjacent 'to the point where such supporter is'clasped or fastened.

The ordinary hose-supporter for women, notwithstanding the provision of a soft or rubber button, frequentlyjstrains and tears the stockings, especially if these be of fine or delicate texture, owing to the tension under which they WOI'k. Various efforts have been made to overcome this-as, for instance, knitting) the stocking thicker at its up er part or y the provision of tabs to be sewed to the stockings, two to each, with an eyelet for the reception for the button of the hose-supporter. Both are expensive, and the latter not only re uires sewing, but also frequently resewing W on changed from one pair of stockings to another, or else a set of four must be used for each pair of stockings.

I am aware of the patent ,to Gorton, No.

542,440, dated July 9, 1895,: in which a flap ortab is sewed and permanently attached to the garment sup orted, so as to lie between the constricted cop and the',buttona The disadvantage, however, of sueh'a construcfl tion resides in the fact that the flap is thus made a permanent part of the garment sup view of t sewed to the stocking or to the garment-supporter and which can be readily attached to and detached from such garment-supporter by the user and which can be made and sold at very small cost and is therefore readily purchasable independently of the garmentsupporter and as an adunct thereto and w tiout requiring any change in the construction of such garmout-supporters as now manufactured.

The flap or tab of this improved protector maybe formed of-any suitable material, as of rubber or cloth, and provided with some suitable means of attaching it to the garmentsup orteras, for instance, a metallic ho! erand may consist of one or more flaps, as found most desirable in practice. In the preferred form shown in the drawings it comprises a metal holder to which a pair of flaps are secured, so that they may extend between the loop and the button and receive between them the stocking, and thus have a protecting-flap between the stocking and the utton and a protecting-flap between the stocking and the loop.

In the drawings accompanying and forming part of this Specification, Figure 1 is a front view of a part of a hose-supporter attached to a stocking with this improved pros tector in {JOSitiOIlfOI use. Fig. 2 is a sectional perspective view of this improvement illustrated as attached to the garment-supporter link, the constricted loop-and buttonjof the supporter, together with the stocking,'being shown in dotted lines; and Figs. 4-and 5-are perispective views of this improvement in detai. 9

Similar characters (of reference indicate corresponding arts throughout the different figures of the rawings. I

In the form shown this detachable protector 2 comprises a pair of flaps 3 and 4,preferably formed of a single thickness of suitable bar 5 of the holder 6'. This is shown made of wire, comprising the bar 5 for the reception eparts shown in Fig. 1. Fig. 3isa material doubled upon itself and around the of the llap and to which it is i the button, so that sewed, and a pair of arms 7, the ends of which are bent'to form hooks 8 for engagement with the metal ring or link 9 of the garment-supporter. These bent,ends may be of spring formation, if desired, whereby when sprung into place they cannot be detached without some effort, or the spring-feature may be omitted, since obviously the detachment of the holder is not practicable as long as the supporter is in use, since it is necessary to move it into a horizontal position relative to the supporter in order to detach it. The holder carrying the flap is preferably of metallic formation and may be of various forms, that shown being one that is well adapted for the purpose. This protector 2 is attached to the garment supporter havingthe usual clasp a, comprising the constricted loop Z) and the rubber or other soft button 0, by inserting the hooks of the holder into the ring or link'9 in the manncr shown, whereby the flaps are in position to extend between the constricted, loop and when the stocking is received, as illustrated in Fig. 2,between the flaps the cutting and straining thereof is avoided, as has been demonstrated in actual use. Instead of the two flaps one may be provided, if desired, Fig. 5 but it is not nearly so efficient or effective except when the clasp is in the form. of a constricted or V-shaped loop for pinching the stocking. When one flap, however, is used, the upper end is sewed to the holder, the flap coming between the stocking and the constricted loop.

Of course it will be obvious thatthis improved detachable flap may be attached at other points to the supporter than that where it is shown and that the holder may he made up in various forms, the gist of the invention" being the provision of an improved detachable protector, so that the flap will lie between.

I the loop and the garment or between both the loop and the button and the garment, by the wearing, tearing, straining, and slipping of. the garment is prevented. 1

W11 ere- I claim as my invention-- 1. A garment-supporter having a clasp, and a protector comprising a readilydetachable holder having means attachable to said supporter without puncturing any part there of and carrying a tla or flaps adapted to be interposed between t 10 member or members of such clasp and thegarmbnt.

fl. A garment-supporter having a clasp comprising abutton and a constricted loop, and a protector comprising a readily-detachable holder having means attachable to a part of said supporter without puncturing any part thereof and carrying a flap or flaps adapted to be interposed between the garment and such clasp.

3. A garment-supporter having a clas'p, and a detachable protector adapted to be interposed between one or both members of such clasp and the garment and comprisinga holder having means for attachment to a metallic part of such garment-supporter and carrying one or more flaps secured thereto.

4. A garment-supporter having a clasp, and a detachable protector adapted to be in.- terposed between one such clasp and the garment and comprising a metallic holder, having spring-hooks for attachment to such ganne11t-supporter and carrying one or more flaps secured thereto.

5. A garment-protector adapted to be interposed between a member of a garmentclasp and the garment and comprising a holder having means readily attachable to a part of a garment-supporter without puncturing any part thereof and carrying one or more flaps secured thereto.

6. A garmentproteet'or adapted to be interposed between a pair of members of a clasp and comprising a metallic holder havmg a bar provided with hooked ends and a pair of flaps secured to such bar.

, MARY L. GASTON.

VVitnesses:

WALTER GASTON, C. A. WEED.

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